Re: HTML file server side includes plus forms authentication
- From: "William F. Zachmann" <wfz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:16:28 -0400
Bruce,
Sounds like you have provided the specific information I needed. I will try
that out to confirm that it works. Thanks very much!
All the best,
will
"Bruce Barker" <brubar_nospamplease_@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> asp.net processing is a two part
>
> 1) map file extension to asp.net dll - this enables form authenication
> 2) <@ page > directive is found, this causes the page to processed as an
> asp.net page and implements the include logic.
>
> you can just add the <@page> directive to your html pages and you're good
> to go.
>
> -- bruce (sqlwork.com)
>
>
> "William F. Zachmann" <wfz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:e9bNSyE2FHA.2540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> We've got a project going that involves moving an old web site with a
>> massive dll written in C++ that produces most of the output from a SQL
>> 7.0 data base on NT4 onto IIS on Windows 2003 Server with SQL 2000. All
>> new code is being written in C# using ASP.NET and we are using forms
>> authentication to control access to particular directories/applications.
>>
>> We are having a hard time figuring out how to configure the thing so that
>> existing html files both a) have access controlled through ASP.NET forms
>> authentication and b) render server side includes correctly. If we
>> configure the htm/html files for the application on IIS to be handled by
>> ssinc.dll the includes are rendered correctly, but access is not
>> restricted by forms authentication. If we configure them to be handled
>> by aspnet_isapi.dll we get forms authentication control, but the includes
>> are ignored.
>>
>> Oddly, simply renaming a file from *.html to *.aspx with no other changes
>> results in aspnet_isapi.dll handling it correctly -- providing forms
>> authentication access control and also rendering includes correctly. But
>> if the file name is *.htm or *.html, aspnet_isapi.dll fails to include
>> the includes. It almost seems like this is a bug! I cannot, at any
>> rate, see any reason why it would do this by design.
>>
>> So, in theory, we could solve the problem by just re-naming all our
>> htm/html files with an aspx extension instead. Unfortunately this is not
>> so easily done in practice since the old C++ .dll that creates most pages
>> and fills them with stuff from the data base has hyperlinks to the *.html
>> files hard coded into it all over the place. It is not impossible to
>> change this, but we'd like to find a simpler way.
>>
>> Can anyone offer a suggestion for a way to resolve this problem? Is it
>> simply a bug that aspnet_isapi.dll renders includes for *.aspx files but
>> fails to do so for an otherwise identical files with a .htm or .html
>> extension?
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> will
>>
>> William F. Zachmann, President
>> Canopus Research Inc.
>> http://www.canopusresearch.com
>>
>
>
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